If you live in Norfolk, Virginia and were missing February’s mortgage bill, chances are it was tossed in an overgrown lot.
A grand jury has indicted U.S. Postal Service mail carrier assistant Shalita K. Corley with four felony counts of “secreting and detaining mail,” according to an indictment handed down March 4.
The document states that instead of delivering the mail, Corley stashed a total of eight bags full of it on January 16, 23, 30 and February 3, 2015 in a empty property on Villa Circle in Norfolk.
Malikul Abdullah, who lives across the street from the location, allegedly saw her dump something out of her mail truck.
“I came out and she was gone, but I looked at the area where she dumped something, and found three bags of mail right here in the bushes here. I couldn’t believe it was mail,” Abdullah tells WAVY.
Five more were stashed at a location up the street.
“I couldn’t believe it … I think there’s something wrong with her to throw away mail,” Abdullah says.
The man’s wife captured cell phone video of mail strewn across the lot and blowing down the street.
“This is mail that has been thrown in our neighborhood. Right here in Villa Heights … the postal worker is littering, she should get a charge for littering, for destroying postal mail,” she said while taking the video.
While Corley had no comment, her husband would only invoke the name of Jesus.
“The Bible says, ‘therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.’ And that’s who we are trusting in right now, and that’s where we are at,” Tony Bateman says.
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